It still hurts

[lefty]

https://twitter.com/miamiheat/status/1240811136410202112?s=21

[Spurtacular]

I know ST'ers didn't like Neal at the time. I was actually a bit of a fan. But I watch him for a couple minutes and wonder what the f*** he's doing out there in the first quarter of a finals clinching game.

[rude1_79]

caught the end on youtube last night. up by 5 with 28 seconds to go.

[Play Boban]

Kawhitter’s missed free throw cost us.

[Leetonidas]

Wonder why no one ever criticizes nephew for choking the 2013 Finals away at the line

[lefty]

Wonder why no one ever criticizes nephew for choking the 2013 Finals away at the line
Or Jim for missing a point blank layup in g7
Or poop for leaving his best rebounder on the bench at the end of game 6

[spurs10]

2014 wouldn't be the best redemption story in all of sports without the 'pain.'

[Leetonidas]

Or Jim for missing a point blank layup in g7
Or poop for leaving his best rebounder on the bench at the end of game 6

Poop gets called out for that all the time tbh. Duncan has a pass considering he was a beast in G6 and was already a 4 time champ

[Arcadian]

It actually doesn't hurt anymore! When I look back on it, I think:

Miami barely scraped by with a lucky victory in '13.
Spurs waxed their asses by a historic margin of victory in '14.
Therefore, it's a net positive for the Spurs. We were the better team over a 2-year span.

As far as I'm concerned, '13 was just a prelude to the epic story of the rightful champions resuming their place on the throne. :toast

[$pursDynasty]

It actually doesn't hurt anymore! When I look back on it, I think:

Miami barely scraped by with a lucky victory in '13.
Spurs waxed their asses by a historic margin of victory in '14.
Therefore, it's a net positive for the Spurs. We were the better team over a 2-year span.

:toast
THIS, exactly what I was thinking :clap

[Gibbz]

Holy shit--the Ray Allen memory haunts me but god damn if Manu didn't get fouled and could have won it at the line with 1.9 remaining in OT. No wonder Manu shoved the same bitch off and yammed on Bosh the next year.

[jbspurs]

It was the referee's who killed the Spurs 2013 Game 6 finals. Back to back no call on Manu drive and Green 3pt attemp. Refs swallowed the whistle to extend the finals.

[spurs10]

It was the referee's who killed the Spurs 2013 Game 6 finals. Back to back no call on Manu drive and Green 3pt attemp. Refs swallowed the whistle to extend the finals. Troof....just as bad is the karate chop Dirk admittedly gave Tim in '06 at the end of regulation. Manu gets called for a 'touch' foul and that gets overlooked.

[Budkin]

Troof....just as bad is the karate chop Dirk admittedly gave Tim in '06 at the end of regulation. Manu gets called for a 'touch' foul and that gets overlooked.

Dirk went with the percentages on that one... he knew that 99% of the time the refs aren't going to call that so you might as well get a good one in to prevent the win.

[Dex]

I don't care what anyone says. This game still pisses me off.

I will never experience a bigger sports disappointment in the rest of my life.

If it weren't for 2014, I may be at the bottom of a cliff somewhere.

[slick'81]

It actually doesn't hurt anymore! When I look back on it, I think:

Miami barely scraped by with a lucky victory in '13.
Spurs waxed their asses by a historic margin of victory in '14.
Therefore, it's a net positive for the Spurs. We were the better team over a 2-year span.

As far as I'm concerned, '13 was just a prelude to the epic story of the rightful champions resuming their place on the throne. :toast


Yea but.....a back2back woulda been nice

[Dex]

Yea but.....a back2back woulda been nice

No one expected the Spurs to win in '13. If they had, it would have been viewed as a major upset.

By '14, a lot of people felt like the Spurs let one get away...and so no one was surprised when they won the second time around (though no one expected the beatdown)

[Brazil]

It actually doesn't hurt anymore! When I look back on it, I think:

Miami barely scraped by with a lucky victory in '13.
Spurs waxed their asses by a historic margin of victory in '14.
Therefore, it's a net positive for the Spurs. We were the better team over a 2-year span.

As far as I'm concerned, '13 was just a prelude to the epic story of the rightful champions resuming their place on the throne. :toast

tbh...

[Play Boban]

I don't care what anyone says. This game still pisses me off.

I will never experience a bigger sports disappointment in the rest of my life.

If it weren't for 2014, I may be at the bottom of a cliff somewhere.
If we had lost in 2014, too, all I would’ve needed was a chair and a rope tbqh.

[gospursgojas]

Thought this thread was about my chest. #coronavirus

[spurs10]

Dirk went with the percentages on that one... he knew that 99% of the time the refs aren't going to call that so you might as well get a good one in to prevent the win.


I don't care what anyone says. This game still pisses me off.

I will never experience a bigger sports disappointment in the rest of my life.

If it weren't for 2014, I may be at the bottom of a cliff somewhere. :bobo
Yeah '14 sure cured a lot of pains. It really was the 'greatest redemption story' in all of sports. At least I can't think of anything that matches it. I was sitting behind our basket in game 5 2014 and I'm still feel like it was something surreal.

[FrostKing]

:bobo
It really was the 'greatest redemption story' in all of sports. At least I can't think of anything that matches it
2004 Red Sox is better IMO

Other memorable in other sports that fall short
- John Elway upsetting double digit favorite Favre after 0-3 Super Bowl record

- Bayern in 2001 and 2013

- Virginia Bball wins title after first ever #16 vs #1 upset

-Crosby 1st title was a rematch of the previous Cup Final but this time they won in 7 games

NBA tends to have alot of rematches. That whole ERA of 80s-early 90s was teams climbing the ladder and then being conquered themselves. Hockey is the same way - sustained dominance. In NFL the losing team especially in Super Bowls, almost always declines

[james evans]

Kawhitter’s missed free throw cost us.
no, a dumbass coach putting a 60% freethrow shooter in the game to clinch it at the line cost us. Would you blame Dennis Rodman for losing the game at the line if Phil Jackson called a timeout and put him in to clinch the game at the line? Well, that's what exactly happened. Popovich called a timeout, put a HORRIBLE free throw shooter in the game(and Kawhi was bad that whole playoffs at the line) and then Takes Duncan out a 2nd time on defense and the rest is history. It's like he was intentionally throwing the game. I've never seen a game so badly coached by a hall of fame coach in my entire life.

[james evans]

It was the referee's who killed the Spurs 2013 Game 6 finals. Back to back no call on Manu drive and Green 3pt attemp. Refs swallowed the whistle to extend the finals.
that's not true. As bad as it pains me to say this, we got the benefit of more whistles than the Heat that series. It's like the league didn't want the Heat to win it. But Popovich's shitty coaching fucked us over. I saw a 4-1 series win for us that year. I swear I did. I just wan't understanding why these games were so goddamn close. Then in 2014, I said we were gonna sweep them. After Parker and Duncan missed 4 freethrows in game 2, everyone here panicked like they always do. I was the ONLY ONE ON THIS ENTIRE SITE(and you can do a search) that guaranteed a game 3 victory. I said, "we're gonna win game 3 and the rest of the series. NO need to worry".

[exstatic]

We were Yoko to the Heatles, broke that shit up, but good.

[Spurtacular]

Watched Game 7 on ESPN last night. That was like the worst final two minutes of basketball in Spurs history. Manu and Tim just not on the same page.

And on that play that Timmy missed the bunny, I think he thought Manu was going to take the game-winning three. Manu probably would have too if he hadn't of saw the mismatch on Battier. I don't think Timmy even quite appreciated the mismatch. He just went too fast and rushed the shot.

Also, that Chalmers shot at the end of the third, still mad at Diaw for not getting up on him. I really thought at the time and still do that after Manu made that layup to go up two that the Spurs were primed to take over the fourth against a Heat team that knew they weren't better. That Chalmers shot pumped in belief into a wounded animal.

[Dirks_Finale]

Manu definitely made the right basketball play. I do have to wonder if Tim's head was still ready to explode after having Pop sit him at the end of game 6. So I give him a pass on the blown bunny. Shouldn't have came to that anyway.


Watched Game 7 on ESPN last night. That was like the worst final two minutes of basketball in Spurs history. Manu and Tim just not on the same page.

And on that play that Timmy missed the bunny, I think he thought Manu was going to take the game-winning three. Manu probably would have too if he hadn't of saw the mismatch on Battier. I don't think Timmy even quite appreciated the mismatch. He just went too fast and rushed the shot.

Also, that Chalmers shot at the end of the third, still mad at Diaw for not getting up on him. I really thought at the time and still do that after Manu made that layup to go up two that the Spurs were primed to take over the fourth against a Heat team that knew they weren't better. That Chalmers shot pumped in belief into a wounded animal.

[MultiTroll]

Also, that Chalmers shot at the end of the third, still mad at Diaw for not getting up on him. I really thought at the time and still do that after Manu made that layup to go up two that the Spurs were primed to take over the fourth against a Heat team that knew they weren't better. That Chalmers shot pumped in belief into a wounded animal.Absolute slackerism. In contrast to how much Tim guarded his man from the inbounds.

[Spurtacular]

Absolute slackerism. In contrast to how much Tim guarded his man from the inbounds.

It was a mistake. But it was also a mistake to not play Diaw in the 4th. Pop should've taken Green out.

[Spurtacular]

Manu definitely made the right basketball play. I do have to wonder if Tim's head was still ready to explode after having Pop sit him at the end of game 6. So I give him a pass on the blown bunny. Shouldn't have came to that anyway.

On paper. I think Manu was primed to make that shot though. Timmy was primed for him to take that shot.

[Spurs Homer]

ABC - showing

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today at 1pm CST


those bastards!